MARINER'S MUSEUM v. CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS

Record No. 970833.

495 S.E.2d 251 (1998)

The MARINER'S MUSEUM, et al. v. CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips M. Dowding (E.D. David; David & Kamp, on brief), Newport News, for appellants.

Allen L. Jackson, Deputy City Attorney (Collins L. Owens, Jr., Senior Assistant City Attorney, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action for relief from alleged erroneous assessment of local taxes. The central issue is whether a charitable corporation, eligible for an exemption from real estate taxes, forfeits that exemption when it leases realty to another charitable corporation and the lease is "a source of revenue or profit" to the lessor under Code § 58.1-3603(A).

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